it's a law. and now the office of management and budget is saying don't issue those layoff notices and we'll pay your legal fees for you violating the law? that is beyond anything that i have ever seen in my life. the key to this is for the president to sit down with us as republican and democrats have asked him to do and let's avoid the sequestration, which his secretary of defense says will devastate national defense. this is unbelievable. >> brian: here is what lockheed martin chairman said, after careful review of the additional guidance provided by the office of management and budget, you just referred to and the department of defense, we will not issue sequestration related notices this year. by the way, it doesn't mean these guys and women are not going to get laid off. it just means they're not going to appear on the unemployment rolls before the election. >> total violation of the law and look, i don't have any brief for these defense executives, but you can imagine the pressure they're